(06-09) 13:54 PDT OAKLAND -- A 15-year-old girl killed in East Oakland in a shooting that also injured two men was identified Monday as Samantha Alvarado.

The three were shot at 10:27 p.m. Saturday near 82nd Avenue and A Street. Samantha died at the scene, while the injured men were taken to a hospital. Their names weren't released.

Samantha was a ninth-grader at Emiliano Zapata Street Academy in Oakland, where she was a "model student," said Principal Gina Hill. An older brother had attended the alternative school, which has 110 students, she said.

"I think what was most impressive about her was she was a very deep and critical thinker," Hill said. "I would have loved to see her pursue law."

Samantha was also a "brilliant artist, and art is really where she found joy and happiness and a way of expressing herself," Hill said.

The principal said she felt "anger, frustration and a sense of powerlessness" over the slaying.

"It's a reminder of how important the work is that we do as teachers here at the street academy," she said.

In a separate homicide at 11:50 p.m. Saturday, 20-year-old Maceo Bell was shot and killed near 48th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard.